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[ainawgsd]

Mustelid Monday

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#mustelid monday #striped-back weasel #mustela strigidorsa #back-striped weasel #mustelid #weasels

[bonesthedestroyeroflegos]

The results of my most recent twitch stream.

The next set of mustelids, this time representing Mustelinae, we have the back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa) and the steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii).

https://www.twitch.tv/bonesthedestroyeroflegos

#mustelid #watercolor painting #animal art #scientific illustration #mustela eversmanii #steppe polecat #mustela strigidorsa #back-striped weasel #twitch art stream #twitch #twitch streamer

[djgblogger-blog]

Last Glimpses of a Cambodian Paradise? Documenting an area on the eve of its likely destruction (commentary)

http://bit.ly/2yyR8Mn First came the damning reports from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA): one last year titled “Repeat Offenders,” which described the massive logging operations taking place in Cambodia’s Virachey National Park, O Yadav National Park, and Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. And then another earlier this year, published as a follow-up piece focusing almost squarely on Virachey National Park and titled “Serial Offenders,” which detailed the almost unfathomable scale of illegal logging operations in the Park to feed Vietnam’s rapacious desire for timber for its multi-billion dollar furniture industry — products that, when carved and polished in their final forms, end up in furniture stores in the United States, China, and the EU. The sheer scale of the logging operations makes it a wonder that there’s anything left of the forest, especially as the timber just keeps flowing out of northeast Cambodia and into Vietnam unabated. In fact, Cambodia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates. Yet there is still plenty of wildlife, at least in Virachey National Park, where I have been part of a team that has been conducting a wildlife survey for four years now. Last year we rediscovered Asian elephants after they had not been detected in the Park for over a decade (our paper appeared in the December 2017 issue of the Cambodian Journal of Natural History), and we recently published a paper in the IUCN journal Small Carnivore Conservation documenting Cambodia’s first record of Back-striped Weasel (Mustela Strigidorsa). An Asian black bear on the move in…